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HAve you looked at this one? http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_overvw.html

Thanks Goodman! Could anyone tell me, in descriptive writing what tense usually writer choose. And Guys please reply my 2nd post last two sentenses as well. And explain we can separate verb and subject i.e mirror and curtain, by using comma for emphasis like Feebs did? Third sentence, I have...

Hi Rayh, The 'and' seems reasonable to me, and not an unusual thing to say. Nevertheless, I agree with you to the extent that it would be equally common to hear someone say it without the 'and'. However, as you know, we often speak without giving much thought to the grammar of...

Hi Lolli, welcome! The mentioned sign is a comma, a colon are two dots : . Despite usually carries a comma, as it helps to differentiate the two opposed sentences. Let's wait for "grammar freaks" to explain better. cheers

I doubt that it is more nearly acceptable that we reproduce the exact same thread with a new date on it. The word that I mispelled was "clause." If you reread the post, I misspelled several words. I was copying from the Gregg reference manual (an English grammar / usage reference manual) as...

Thanks a lot! Grammar Geek. One stone for three birds. I am happy camper! Grammar Geek wrote: They both seem fine to me. Don't capitalize the subjects, and use a comma instead of a semi-colon. You can also refer to someone as "A physics major" if it is a person who is majoring in physics.

I find these rules at http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp very helpful. Rule 1 ...

The comma creates a comma-splice-- a grammar error of two independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction, a semicolon or a period.

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the...